Doilies Quotes

• She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.

  Gail Carriger

  Teacher, Hair, Giving

  Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Grandmother, House, Littles

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.

  Rhoda Janzen

  Fashion, Morning, Clothes

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• I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Thinking, Ugly

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.182, Ballantine Books

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• Don't blather that it is too hard. The action to liberate Baader wasn't crocheting doilies either.

  Gudrun Ensslin

  Action, Blather, Hard

  "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.

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• Seems to me we move the furniture, the French come in later and put the doilies on top of it...It's a simple fact they've always been reluctant to surrender to the wishes of their friends and are almost anticipatory in their urge to surrender to wishes of their enemies. And if they want to get their hands dirty now they're just gonna have to run 'em through their own hair.

  Dennis Miller

  Running, Dirty, Moving

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• People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed.

  Judith Martin

  People, Manners, Plastic

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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